Masterclass - Neil Gaiman Teaches The Art Of - St...

Cut to a desk covered in index cards. "There are two kinds of writers: architects and gardeners. Architects know every room, every joist. Gardeners throw a seed in the ground and see what grows. I am a gardener. For The Ocean at the End of the Lane , I had a boy, a pond, and an old woman. That was it. The plot came from asking: 'What would happen if...?' But here’s the secret: character is plot. What does your character want more than anything? And what happens if they don't get it?"

Neil Gaiman sits in a high-backed leather chair, surrounded by bookshelves crammed with strange artifacts, first editions, and a raven skull. He leans forward, eyes twinkling. MasterClass - Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of St...

He holds up a thick stack of rejection slips. "I have a wall of these. From The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , from publishers, from my own mother. (She said The Graveyard Book was too dark. I ignored her.) The secret to a career is not talent. It’s stubbornness. Finish what you start. Let the work be bad. You can fix bad. You can’t fix nothing. And when you finish? Send it out. Then start the next thing." Cut to a desk covered in index cards

NEIL GAIMAN TEACHES THE ART OF STORYTELLING Gardeners throw a seed in the ground and see what grows

MasterClass – Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling. 19 lessons, 4+ hours. Included with membership. End of generated text.